GERD WEYHING – JOURNEYS TO IMPOSSIBLE PLACES – INDEPENDENT
Gerd’s 2014 album really does want to take us on a journey, as he brings us five numbers where the shortest is more than 21 minutes long, with a total album length of more than 135 minutes. He states they were all recorded live, with the exception of “Landscape and...
GERD WEYHING – SUBTERRAMACHINEA – INDEPENDENT
Gerd’s 2018 album, ‘SubTerraMachIneA’, is quite different indeed to ‘Journey’. Here he took some five years on the three tracks (again two are lengthy while one is “only” 12 minutes), which has allowed him to produce an album with far more in the way of layers....
OUTSIDE IN – KARMATRAIN – AAA RECORDS
Outside In are a rare beast indeed, as not only are they a progressive rock band, but they are a progressive rock band from New Zealand! Our wonderful country has a geographical mass a little larger than the UK, but less than five million people live here, and while a...
DRIFTING SUN – SINGLED OUT – INDEPENDENT
In 2015, after a gap of some sixteen years, Drifting Sun returned with their third album. Keyboard player Pat Sanders had decided it was time, and created a brand-new version of the band, with himself being the only person who had appeared on the two albums in the...
EFFLORESCE – COMA GHOSTS – GENERATION PROG RECORDS
I am very used to being late to the party, especially with living at the end of the world, so I have only just come across this album which was released in 2012. It was the debut album from German band Effloresce, following on from a 3-track EP and according to their...
Lee Martin “At Home” Gig Review
I have been writing gig reviews for more than 30 years, but always from notes taken at the time which act as memory joggers, so this is the first time I have ever written a full review while the concert itself is still taking place! With the current restrictions in...
Babal – The Big Everything album review – Kev Rowland
Babal - The Big Everything - Melodic Revolution RecordsReleased at the beginning of 2020, 'Frank's Lament' is the third of the EP's completing the second part of the trilogy, which will be finalized with the release of the '(I'm Just A) Spirit In A Meat Suit' later...
PSYCHOYOGI – ACCIDENT-PRONE – INDEPENDENT
One of the unexpected side benefits from my books being published is that I am being contacted from even more bands than before, and such is the case with PsychoYogi. I heard from Chris Ramsing, who wrote all the songs on this album (and also provides vocals and...
PAT TRAVERS – SWING! – PURPLE PYRAMID RECORDS
I must confess that when I saw this album and read about it, I was more than a little intrigued. Like many people my age I have been fully aware of Pat Travers and remember him from the Seventies and Eighties in particular, but that was from a blues-based hard rock...
NEON LEAVES – A ROOM FULL OF STRANGERS – FLICKNIFE RECORDS
Neon Leaves is a new name to me, although apparently this quartet have been together for some years and this their second album was released back in 2016 but has only recently come to my attention. Comprising Trevor Barras (drums, percussion, backing vocals), John...
